Changing nappies on airport seats

I thought you said she had a changing mat, therefore bottom or nappy didn't come into contact with the seat. The only issue is her dirty hands really, and many airport users will have those.

You were in Spain. Spanish culture is very much babies are babies and they will be changed anywhere, fed anywhere and you were extremely rude putting your foreign views on someone.

Would I do it myself? No. Would I berate somebody else for doing it? Also no. Personally I don’t see the issue with changing a baby’s nappy if a travel mat is used, there is nobody eating around you and the dirty nappy is disposed of quickly. It’s similar to somebody whipping their boob out for no reason being unacceptable but having a boob on display whilst breastfeeding being acceptable as clearly it’s only due to the need arising.

I had 3 DDs, now all adults.

This wasn't something I ever did but travelling with babies is very stressful. I wouldn't have berated her though. Babies and young children simply don't poo to order at convenient times. More often than not it will be at the least convenient moment.

What she did wasn't ideal, but there was a lengthy queue for the facilities and with boarding the plane imminent she didn't want to risk missing the flight. So I can see why she did it. She had to think on her feet and would very likely have been very stressed at the time, which you and your high moral horse made many times worse.

She did also protect the seat by using a changing mat. That's exactly what the mat is for. The seat was protected, as were people who would come along later. No problem, but you made one and made a new mum feel like shit.

I misread that as ‘nipple tassels’. This is literally a thread about a baby shitting themself. No one has degraded you OP, you have come off as a bit of a simpleton though. Maybe that was your intention.

It's an absolutely disgusting and unhygienic thing to do. Revolting that anyone thinks it's acceptable.

Also need to add was there a Dad anywhere on the scene? An older toddler/young child sibling? If so was she alone with multiple kids? In that case you can't just go to the toilets or baby change and leave another child and it isn't always practical to take a baby to change with a grumpy 3 year old in tow

Have you been caught out in Palma airport lately with a baby covered in poo whilst you flight boards and there is at least 30 people in the queue for the toilets? Because I have and the only shame here is the lack of facilities. I emphasise completely with the woman who was publicly berated. A shit situation all round. And I certainly don’t have ‘low’ standards so having to crouch behind a suitcase and change my baby on a dirty floor certainly wasn’t out of having any reasonable choice. Shame on you for being so quick to condemn others.

Sometimes the ‘facilities provided’ are disgustingly unhygienic and have clearly never been properly cleaned. I wouldn’t change my baby on airport seats but I understand not wanting to use the baby changing table in the loos.

But it's your own car, and only you have to sit on the seat afterwards.....

More judgement is needed, not less, and people should be publicly shamed for their behaviour.

As long as she used something between the baby and the seat it wouldn't bother me.

Perfect, we can just change babies wherever we feel like it. Why bother maintaining these facilities if no one wants to avail themselves of privacy and dignity? Enjoying a meal out, and a baby’s having it nappy changed on the table next to you. Don’t judge. How about at the cinema? In-flight tables? In the queue at a shop? On the supermarket checkout? You shouldn’t judge after all, and it’d be so rude to say anything.

I understand the distinction and I'm trying not to be an arse unsuccessfully but where do we draw the line and how can we tell if this situation or that circumstance is not just a pattern of behaviour and the parent does this all the time, because nobody has ever said anything? That's the point, I think , some people don't know that it's disgusting to spit in the street, put feet on seats or play music on public without headphones on public transport.

Standards are slipping everywhere.

But if the queue is for your flight home from a different country then it’s a bit different than having to queue to change your baby’s bottom whilst your starters go cold, isnt it?

Ok , let's just do away with baby changing facilities and just change nappies anywhere - restaurants, reception desks, the shared tables on trains since there's always going to be a queue somewhere and the rest of us don't get it 🫣.

In her defence, I had to hide behind my suitcase and change DC bottom in a corner of Palma airport a week or two ago. They’d had a poo-Nami and there must have been 30 people in the queue for the loo. Our flight was also boarding. Not ideal but neither is that airport for baby changing facilities.

I don't think I'd change a nappy on an airport seat myself but if I saw it at most I'd look away and exchange a look at my traveling companion, I wouldn't approach the mum to berate her. That seems like an unnecessary escalation to me, why make things even more unpleasant?

Possibly....as did probably 100s of people who didn't wash their hands after going for a poo.

grim as fuck

If she had a changing mat then I really wouldn’t get worked up about it. You said there was a queue. Perhaps she didn’t have time before boarding a plane. It really is quite impossible to change a poo filled nappy on a plane.

If the plane was boarding then it was that or taking the pooey baby on the plane, potentially for a long time before being able to change them. Sorry but for me that calls for emergency solution (with a changing mat of course, not directly on the seat).